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Some of the bravest political work in this country and around the world has happened because people often too young to grasp their own mortality stick their necks out. The job of the rest of us is to rise to the occasion of their bravery. The young inspire the middle-aged and old with courage, and they project our vision where it belongs, into the future.

— Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)

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A movement, even a radical movement, is also an institution with its own set of leaders, power dynamics and hierarchy.

The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)

The young inspire the middle-aged and old with courage, and they project our vision where it belongs, into the future.

Learning a language stretches a long way to help create trust, to strengthen our ability to communicate and to understand another people. It also signals willingness to give up centrality.

The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)

We must want equality, and we must grasp that equality does not coexist with class structure.

It is from this solid, self-knowing place that we can work towards peace and justice

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